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Commentary
I sometimes joke that I’m a “wooden-headed literalist.” Well, the more I write poetry, and the more I examine myself, the more serious I get in this self-deprecation.
Lately, I have been considering the work of John Walton (Old Testament scholar and Professor Emeritus at Wheaton College). There may be others who have tried to account for metaphor in Genesis, but Walton’s is the first serious attempt that I have encountered. The hamster wheel in my cranium is spinning wildly—and wobbly—as I think through his propositions.
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